Daniel Gregory Amen

Biography :

Daniel G. Amen, M.D. is a physician, psychiatrist, professor and ten-time New York Times bestselling author. He is a double board-certified child and adult psychiatrist and founder of Amen Clinics, Inc., operating with eight clinics across the country. Amen Clinics has the world’s largest database of functional brain scans relating to behaviour, totalling over 150,000 scans on patients from 130 countries. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. He is the lead researcher on the world’s largest brain imaging and brain rehabilitation study on professional football players, which not only demonstrated significant brain damage in a high percentage of retired players, but also the possibility for rehabilitation in many with the principles that underlie his work.